This year’s World Meteorological Day begins on Friday with the theme “weather-ready, climate-smart”. The event will focus on the extreme weather and forecast of climate change. CGTN has selected several spectacular photos of some meteorological phenomena around the world. /VCG Photo

On January 2, 2017, a soldier in the city of Mohe, far north China’s Heilongjiang Province, threw a pot of hot water under minus 39 degrees outdoor, which immediately turned to ice. /VCG Photo

A magical rainbow was captured stretching across a waterfall located in the south of Iceland in 2015. /VCG Photo

Lightning lit up the dark and struck the silent sea in Porec, Croatia in 2017. The storm chaser sat only 100 meters away from the lightning when capturing this moment. /VCG Photo

On March 18, 2018, wind and ice formed a bizarre sculpture on the snowy Brocken mountain near Schierke in Harz, Germany. /VCG Photo